DATE:	Monday, February 5, 2007
TIME:	11:30 a.m. to noon
PLACE:	Main Post Office lobby 904 W Riverside Ave. Reno, Nevada

PARTICIPANTS:

Spokane Postmaster Ed Schierberl Postal Inspection Service Attorney General's Office Better Business Bureau Progressions Credit Union

EVENT:

The Postal Service will be hosting a press conference on February 5 from 11:30 a.m. to noon in the lobby of the main Post Office, located at 904 W Riverside Ave. The purpose of the event is to raise consumer awareness in regard to fraud issues and provide education on prevention methods.

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An independent federal agency, the Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses — six days a week and also has 37,000 retail locations. It relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. USPS has annual revenues of $73 billion and delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume.